1. • noun - a long thin implement made of metal or wood
   • noun - any rod-shaped bacterium
   • noun - a linear measure of 16.5 feet
   • noun - a square rod of land
   • noun - a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light
   • noun - a gangster's pistol
2. • A fishing rod.
   • A piston rod.
   • An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.
   • A leveling rod.
   • A lightning rod.
   • A divining rod.
   • A measuring stick.
   • A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.
   • A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.
   • Punishment; correction.
   • A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.
   • Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature: “under the rod of a cruel slavery” (John Henry Newman).
   • A linear measure equal to 5.
   • The square of this measure, equal to 30.
   • A line of family descent; a branch of a tribe.
   • Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light.
   • An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.
   • A pistol or revolver.
   • Often rods.
3. • v - to provide with a rod (a straight, slender piece of wood, metal, or other material)

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